I gave Hatoful Boyfriend a 9 because it's a visual novel, a visual novel with a great plot and interesting characters. It's harder to rate a visual novel because their isn't much in the way of gameplay or even a game. A 9 may be a bit much, but I feel that it well deserved for what it is.

it has no voice, no animation, the game is really short for being a 'novel' it's not a novel however, it's meant to be a dating sim with a deep story after the original games done, it's a 9 is when you have no actual consistent form of rating and thus the rating has little credit. When you don't bring forth the cons towards this game you essentially have "l love this game! cause lol pigeons! 10/10 would bang!" as your review.

I get it, it is hard to review such an odd game but l feel as if we're throwing all these high numbers around that 6-8 scores feel as if they're bad. /sigh l miss a decade ago scoring system.

I give it a 7 at max, it does it's job seems content on not pushing outside the box (lol box...stupid BBL) in game story telling.